Diplocaulobium regale [Schlechter] A.D.Hawkes 1957 SECTION Diplocaulobium Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Regal Diplocaulobium

Flower Size 3" [8 cm]

A small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species found in New Guinea on mossy trees in tall humid forests at 700 to 2100 meters and is a hot to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical and slender above , swollen and ovoid basaly stems covered by imbricating sheaths and drying to bright yellow with age and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, subacute to obtuse leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a short inflorescence that arises from the base of the leaf through a large compressed sheath and has a single, showy, very short lived, flat flower at a time. It needs a well draining, quick drying medium to maintain the health of the plant.

Synonyms *Dendrobium regale Schltr. 1912; Dendrobium regale var. euanthum Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85 as Dendrobium regale var. euanthum Schltr. 1912 Drawing fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobium HP Wood 2006

Diplocaulobium regale var alba Photo by Mrs Ralph Levy © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Diplocaulobium regale var euanthe [Schlechter] A.D.Hawkes 1957 Photo courtesy of Greg and Kerri Steenbeeke and their Orkology Kreations Website

A color variety of the previous species.

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